Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League grad arrested final week within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is receiving mail whereas in jail in Pennsylvania awaiting an extradition listening to.
Mangione was arrested Dec. 9 after a buyer at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, noticed him consuming breakfast and seen a resemblance to the individual being sought by police within the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
He’s at present being held at State Correctional Establishment Huntingdon within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Police say Mangione was discovered with a gun, masks and writings linking him to the ambush outdoors the New York Hilton Midtown, the place Thompson was arriving for his firm’s annual investor convention.
Mangione, 26, remained jailed with out bail Saturday in Pennsylvania, the place he was initially charged with gun and forgery offenses. Altoona is about 230 miles west of New York Metropolis.
Mangione’s lawyer there, Thomas Dickey, has cautioned in opposition to prejudging the case and stated that his consumer would contest his extradition to New York.
However Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg stated Friday that there have been indications Mangione might now hand over on that battle.
“We going to continue to press forward on parallel paths, and we’ll be ready whether he is going to waive extradition or whether he is going to contest extradition,” Bragg stated at an unrelated press convention in Instances Sq..
Hours after Mangione’s arrest on Monday, Bragg’s workplace filed paperwork charging him with 5 counts, together with intentional homicide, legal possession of a weapon and legal possession of a solid instrument.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has stated she’s ready to ask her Pennsylvania counterpart, Gov. Josh Shapiro, to intervene and subject a governor’s warrant requiring Mangione’s extradition if he doesn’t conform to be moved voluntarily.
